A showroom manager told The Gazette: “A guy rang in to apologise and explain he couldn’t even remember having done it.

“He says he’s coming in on Monday to pay.”

The footage, shot at 3.41am last Friday, shows two young men jostling with each other outside the shop’s Redcar Road side window. One then swings a punch at the window before turning his attention back at the man he was with.

It left the shop facing another £200 bill to repair a window broken twice before by vandals.

The Rubberduck spokesman added: “He was just a Redcar lad on a night out. He said his hand wasn’t even injured - it didn’t look like he’d done anything.

“But it’s good that he’s rung in, so let’s hope he turns up on Monday. He sounded sheepish but I guess you are when you’re ringing to apologise about something like that.”